[Mr. Douglas]

Before the second half of the 20th century, extra weight was a status symbol. It showed you could afford to eat well.

Fat poor people is a product of the type of food people now eat in developed countries. The fat inducing stuff is the cheap stuff.

Look at old pictures from the great depression. Look for the fat people.

[Ransomed]

Supposedly the average woman now weighs 166lbs+, roughly what the average man weighed in 1960.

Freegards

[Defiant]

How active kids are, and their body type that results, has a great influence on whether they will be fat later. When we were kids in the 60s and 70s, we were so active all day long. Now, not so much (hence, Moochell's "Play 60" campaign.) We used to have these skinny kids that were like rails. No big deal. What we considered fat wouldn't even appear heavy these days. There was like one fat kid per grade. I go back and look at the old pictures and the kid doesn't look fat to my eyes any more. He was a little chunky. But the rest of us had zero body fat.

The ship has sailed; in the iPhone age, we are not going to get kids out in the streets from dawn to dark any more. We have to schedule their sports for them and after school, they will be in front of a computer or a video game console.